Author of Weird Al: The Book, the new The Weird Accordion To Al, and AV Club writer- Nathan Rabin joins us again to debate Al’s first? love song One More Minute from the Dare to Be Stupid album. We also get to talk about the new book and what he learned while doing it.

This episode, while technically not explicit, does get into some odd topics (starting from places in Weird Al’s songs) so if the kids listen to the podcast, maybe skip this one.

Check out Nathan’s page Nathan’s Happy Place and check out The Big Squeeze a update to the original articles that spawned the new book.

A while ago we got to hear David from uhf62nd.com and podcast debate with us. Now we have Jonathan’s interesting take on Al’s parody of Lorde’s Royals.

David and Jonathan, please bring UHF back, we’ve missed it.

We were fortunate enough to have author Lily Hirsch drop by the studios and talk about her upcoming work, Weird Al Seriously. We talk to her about the process of researching and then interviewing Al, as well as what topics are covered by the book (which is more academic then a typical Al book is). Take a listen and then preorder her book over at Amazon.

For more info on Lily go to her site lilyhirsch.com.

Charlie has to confront his choice for worst Al song ever when fan Zeb drops by the studio to discuss Gotta Boogie off Al’s very first album Weird Al Yankovic.

Happy New Year! Charlie and Steve are joined by comedy singer, the host of last year’s FuMPfest, Insane Ian to discuss the Beach Boys style parody, Pancreas.

Ian is part of thefump as well as all over social media including his website insaneian.com and his twitter @insaneian.

What’s Al Yankovic’s best holiday song? Well fellow Weird Al podcasts, the Weird Al-phabet guys, dropped by to help us decide that very issue.

Some of the songs on the table include: Christmas at Ground Zero, The Night Santa Went Crazy, Now It Is the Christmas Season, and even Spatula City.

Check their previous visit to our podcast on Episode 72 Like A Surgeon. Or check their website out at pipedreampodcasts.com. Follow them on instagram: @weirdalpod. And make sure to add their Al podcast to your listening devices (right next to ours). Also check out their podcast on Now It Is the Christmas Season.

Podcast fan Angela joined us recently to help settle the debate over which Star Wars song by Al was the best.

She also shares her unique experience with Al on stage with her friends in the 501st. Something most fans will enjoy learning about.

Pod fan Margie drops by the podcast to debate our rating of the UHF (but super oddly named) classic Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*. We discover a little bit about the song for ourselves, including the part where a guy dressed as Jed Clampett shows up to play guitar with Al? Also, did Dire Straits make an Al reference in one of their videos? Find out here.

Our good friend Khrysti from neozaz.com is back, this time to debate with us over our rating of the B-52s style parody, Mr. Popeil. After the most recent tour, Steve has more to apologize for then just the ratings.

Check out Khrysti on her other shows, especially The GR80s. Maybe check out this episode about a movie with a song you might be familiar with. neozaz.com/the-gr80s-ruthless-people/

Allan (from orlandopodcast.net and more recently from Flash Diaries) is back to defend this straight parody song. We gave it a 4.25, Allan thinks it should be higher!

Themes by Anthony Riley